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Inserting verses from other poems into the silent text in the qawwali performance is called Girah lagana (tying a knot)

Sufi Quotes

God having predestined our satisfaction and dissatisfaction does not alter His predestination; therefore, our satisfaction with His decrees is a part of our pleasure.

God having predestined our satisfaction and dissatisfaction does not alter His predestination; therefore, our satisfaction with His decrees is a part of our pleasure.

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Sufi Quotes

When you are reconciled to God in affliction, you see only the Author of affliction, and the affliction itself does not come.

When you are reconciled to God in affliction, you see only the Author of affliction, and the affliction itself does not come.

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Sufi Quotes

Ecstasy and music were part of his mystical life. For him love is to rend the veils and unveil the secrets.

Ecstasy and music were part of his mystical life. For him love is to rend the veils and unveil the secrets.

Abul Hasan Hankari

Sufi Quotes

Human qualities are Divine qualities in a manifested form. They relate to the Divine Attributes like a part to the whole. Union consists in forsaking all else and being wholly engrossed in the contemplation of the one Unique Being.

Human qualities are Divine qualities in a manifested form. They relate to the Divine Attributes like a part to the whole. Union consists in forsaking all else and being wholly engrossed in the contemplation of the one Unique Being.

Jami

Ghazal

zaraa ai diida-e-tar abr-e-gauhar-baar ho jaanaa
ki dil ke josh kaa ab chaahiye iz.haar ho jaanaa

Nadeem Lakhnavi

Sufi Quotes

The Lower self is a part of the external or the unreal world and thus the saint guards his inner self.

The Lower self is a part of the external or the unreal world and thus the saint guards his inner self.

Abu Bakr Shibli

Sufi Quotes

Every particle of the dust has universal unity. The individual is only in the same way a part of the Infinite Being who fills in the universe, a particle whish has been momentarily detached there from only to return thither.

Every particle of the dust has universal unity. The individual is only in the same way a part of the Infinite Being who fills in the universe, a particle whish has been momentarily detached there from only to return thither.

Mulla Shah Badakhshi

Sufi Quotes

How can the laws of nature be ruptured for you so that miracles result, while you, for your part, have yet to rupture your bad habits.

How can the laws of nature be ruptured for you so that miracles result, while you, for your part, have yet to rupture your bad habits.

Ibn-e-Ataullah Sikandari

Sufi Quotes

Man has no part in repentance, because repentance is from God to Man, not from Man to God.

Man has no part in repentance, because repentance is from God to Man, not from Man to God.

Abu Hafs Haddaad

Sufi Quotes

As regards the relation between human soul and the Divine Soul. Ibn Arabi maintains that, on account of lack of Divine knowledge, we believe that our individual soul is a part of the Divine soul. When we gain Divine knowledge, the truth will be revealed in our heart and we will realise that our soul is nothing but the Divine soul in its original form.

As regards the relation between human soul and the Divine Soul. Ibn Arabi maintains that, on account of lack of Divine knowledge, we believe that our individual soul is a part of the Divine soul. When we gain Divine knowledge, the truth will be revealed in our heart and we will realise that our soul is nothing but the Divine soul in its original form.

Muhiuddin Ibn Arabi

Sufi Quotes

That which is in your fate you shall receive in spite of all obstacles and that which is not in your destiny, by no effort on your part you can secure it. So, what is there against which you have to practice piety (Zuhd).

That which is in your fate you shall receive in spite of all obstacles and that which is not in your destiny, by no effort on your part you can secure it. So, what is there against which you have to practice piety (Zuhd).

Abu Bakr Shibli

Naat-o-Manqabat

gauhar hai 'ilm kaan-e-janaab-e-amiir kaa
allaah re rutba shaan-e-janaab-e-amiir kaa

Khwaja Nasiruddin Chishti

Sufi Quotes

Concentration on the implications of drawing and discharging breath is a part of the seer’s (Arif’s) worship.

Concentration on the implications of drawing and discharging breath is a part of the seer’s (Arif’s) worship.

Khwaja Gharib Nawaz

Ghazal

tuu apne husn-e-amal kaa KHayaal rakh 'gauhar'
gunah-gaaro.n kii kuchh buraa.ii rahne de

Shamim Gauhar

Sufi Quotes

Precisely the part of your world that you've apportioned for Allah, is what Allah has set out for you in His world.

Precisely the part of your world that you've apportioned for Allah, is what Allah has set out for you in His world.

Wasif Ali Wasif

Naat-o-Manqabat

hai.n kushaada is ke dam se hī sadaaqat kī
gauhar faKHr maujuudaat par laakho.n salaam

Mahboob Gauhar Islampuri

Ghazal

safā almās o gauhar se fuzūñ hai tere dandāñ kī
kahāñ tujh lab ke aage qadr-o-qīmat la.al-o-marjāñ kī

Meer Muhammad Bedar

Ghazal

ek tuu hii nahii.n un pe 'gauhar' fidaa
duur tak silsila vasf KHvaanii kaa hai

Shamim Gauhar

Sufi Quotes

Formerly the practice of Sufism was known and the pretense unknown; nowadays the pretense is known, and the practice is unknown.

Formerly the practice of Sufism was known and the pretense unknown; nowadays the pretense is known, and the practice is unknown.

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